country's suburb throughout the 1960s till the 1980s. Development of this area started to sprout when former-Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan (who later became President of the Republic of Singapore) became the MP for Sembawang, and pledged to develop Sembawang into a prosperous suburb. This allowed for the creation of the Woodlands New Town and the entire extension of Woodlands from the original old town centre at Woodlands Centre Road and the integration of Marsiling, a small estate of only around 20 4-storeys HDB blocks, into the new town. Woodlands New Town was speedily developing in the mid-1980s and first plans to build an entirely new bus interchange to replace the relatively small Marsiling Bus Terminal surfaces after Woodlands become part of the new Sembawang GRC in 1988. By the mid-1990s, the Woodlands Bus Interchange based at Woodlands Centre Road was fully functional. Marsiling Bus Terminal continued operations with Services 950, 951, 952 with Service 950 plying the route to Shenton Way, Service 951 to Boon Lay and Service 952 to Marina Centre, were periodically moved to the new bus interchange. The closure of the bus terminal comes as TIBS axed the 95x services, in favour of the new 96x services that served the downtown city areas. New Bridge Road New Bridge Road Bus Terminal was a bus terminal in Eu Tong Sen Street, near to Chinatown and Singapore General Hospital in Singapore. It was opened on 6 June 1987 and was near to Outram Park MRT station. This bus terminal had an alighting berth after the entrance of the bus park. No boarding facilities were available at the terminal, thus was done at the bus stop outside the terminal. Before the terminal was built, many bus services that ply the terminal used to ply at some bus stops along New Bridge Road. In May 2016, the Government announced that a new bus terminal, Kampong Bahru Bus Terminal, which is located along Spooner Road, will replace this bus terminal as the plot of land occupied by it will be redeveloped into a new elective surgery centre by the Singapore General Hospital. The terminal ceased operations on 10 March 2018 with the opening of the new Kampong Bahru Bus Terminal. Sin Ming Road Sin Ming Road Bus Terminal was a bus terminal located along Sin Ming Road in Bishan New Town. Due to rapid urban development and shifting demographics, it was